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Early Addition: Brooklyn Bar Begs Customers To Stop Playing Same 3 Prince Songs On Jukebox
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Nell Casey
Published Apr 29, 2016
Modified Apr 29, 2016
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Published Apr 29, 2016
Modified Apr 29, 2016
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- The Zappa children are fighting over the rights to use their father Frank's name.
- Photos: Ten magnificent trees with "a special story to tell."
- A Bay Ridge bartender is begging patrons to stop playing Prince.
- Large swaths of the Pacific Ocean may be deprived of oxygen in just 15 years due to climate change.
- A GQ writer who profiled Melania Trump has been subjected to violent, antisemitic attacks.
- Netflix will now give The Punisher his own series.
- A Keurig...for tortillas?
- Or perhaps a pizza that's doused with alcohol and lit on fire.
- And finally, this Finnish man and his otter are the definition of #squadgoals:
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